On 25.08.2025 at 09:26, youkidearitai wrote: > I improvement this RFC. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/eol-oniguruma > > Added more information about maintenance versions. > What do you think about Oniguruma maintenance ended. > Please watch and feel free to comment.
First, thank you for caring about this! I agree that we need a long term solution for this issue. As I understand it, Oniguruma's greatest advantage over PCRE2 is that it supports other character encodings than Unicode and ANSI, so deprecating mbregex might be a problem for some users. Still, the alternative would likely be to bundle liboniguruma, and I don't think that would be a good idea. So deprecating mbregex as of PHP 8.6.0 seems prudent; if there would be lots of objections, we could still reconsider. Now I wonder how much trouble it would be to separate mbregex from ext-mbstring. If that can be done with a reasonable amount of work, that would likely be the best course of action (in addition to deprecating mbregex). We could than move the extension to PECL/PIE, and let users deal with it (I'm not happy what happened to ext-imap, but it's still better than relying on an unmaintained library from a bundled extension). Christoph
